A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker
sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes …

The Grenfell Tower fire that took place in a council owned high-rise housing block in the
early hours of 14 June 2017 in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea represented …

Scholarship on elites, including on their consumption, tends to focus primarily on social
closure and the pursuit of social advantage. Research has therefore not investigated the …

This article examines the moral boundary work of wealthy Finnish entrepreneurs belonging
to the country's top 0.1 per cent of earners. Through 28 semi-structured interviews, we show …

Family wealth and cross-generational wealth accumulation have recently interested
scholars across the social sciences. Debates concerning the economic role of the wealthy …

Over recent decades, national Higher Education sectors across the world have experienced
a gradual process of marketisation. This book offers a new interpretation on why and how …

The article explores the attitudes and perceptions of those at the top of the income scale
toward economic inequalities. Through a qualitative case study, it presents how a group of …

Sociological research often uses income as the only indicator to describe or proxy the group
of the rich. This article develops an alternative framework in order to describe varieties of …

Rich people are generally represented, both by academics and in popular culture, as
desiring always to maximize and legitimate their wealth and social advantages. But some …